Tide Breaker is built on the principle that the best subsea AI solutions are not developed in isolation, they are co-created.
Within Tide Breaker, operators, technology providers, and AI developers work together inside a live, governed environment. Solutions are shaped against the challenges of major energy operators, tested on existing data, and validated in conditions that reflect how they will be used.
The Tide Breaker model changes the trajectory of innovation. Instead of moving slowly through disconnected pilots, participants develop with clarity and direction. Solutions arrive in the field aligned to operational needs, tested, and trusted.
The most important piece of Tide Breaker model is that it solves how to collaborate on sensitive subsea data without introducing security risks.
The cybersecurity risk of sharing data
From an operator perspective, the stakes of sharing subsea data are high. Cybersecurity is directly linked to operational resilience and safety. As soon as data leaves the operator boundary, new risks are introduced:
- Loss of control over engineering data
- Unintended exposure through insecure transfer or storage methods
- Supply chain risk, where security depends on third-party environments.
Technology partners face their own set of blockers. Handling high-value datasets brings responsibility across the entire data lifecycle – ingestion to processing, storage, and disposal. The risks are both technical and commercial:
- Avoiding the creation of new attack surfaces
- Keeping multiple client datasets strictly segregated
- Providing full transparency over access, usage, and activity.
Moving beyond traditional data sharing
The traditional model of co-creation relies on moving data by copying files, transferring datasets and duplicating information across systems. With that approach it’s hard to scale as each transfer introduces a security risk and over time, control becomes fragmented.
Tide Breaker takes a different approach.
At the core of Tide Breaker is a secure, governed space, powered by Elementz and designed specifically for working with subsea data. Within this trusted sandbox environment:
- Data remains in a controlled and isolated space
- Access is granted securely, based on defined roles and permissions
- All activity is monitored and auditable
- Data does not leave the environment without governance and review.
This allows operators to retain full control over their data, while still enabling technology partners to develop, test, and run AI models against existing datasets.
Workspaces can be segmented across different collaborators and access can be tightly managed. Every interaction with the data is visible and accountable.
A foundation for scaling subsea AI
In subsea AI, success will not be defined by who has the best idea but by who can safely turn that idea into something that works in practise. Secure co-creation is the foundation that makes scaling possible. Tide Breaker is a great example of how through the Elementz sandbox. It allows operators to open access to high-value data without exposing themselves to risks.